Save this boy

HenryMu scuffling at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 6 09:39:29 CDT 2000


I am a very sick little boy. My mother is typing this for me, because I
can't.
She is crying. Don't cry, Mommy!
Mommy is always sad, but she says it's not my fault.
I asked her if it was God's fault, but she didn't answer, and only started
crying harder, so I don't ask her that anymore.

The reason she is so sad is that I'm so sick.

I was born without a body. It doesn't hurt, except when I go to sleep.
The doctors gave me an artificial body. My body is a burlap bag filled with
leaves. The doctors said that was the best they could do on account of us
havin' no money or insurance.
I would like to have a body transplant, but we need more money. Mommy
doesn't work because she said employers don't hire crying people.

I said :"Don't cry, Mommy," and she hugged my burlap body. Mommy always
gives me hugs, even though she's allergic to burlap, and it chafes her real
bad. I hope you will help me. You can help me if you forward this e-mail.

Dr. Van Nostrem from the clinic said if you forward this e-mail then Bill
Gates will team up with AOL and do a survey with NASA. Then the astronauts
will collect prayers from school children all over America and take them up
to space so that the angels can hear them better.
Then they will go to the Pope, and he will take up a collection in church
and send the money to the doctors. The doctors could help me better then.

Maybe one day I will be able to play baseball. Or maybe just use my lungs
and heart, when the doctors make them. The doctors said that every time you
forward this letter, the astronauts can take another prayer to the angels.
Please help me. Mommy is so sad, and I want a body. I don't want my leaves
to rot before I turn 10.

If you don't forward this e-mail, that's OK.  Mommy says you're a mean
heartless shithead who doesn't care about a poor little boy with only a
head.  She says that if you don't stew in the raw pit of your own
guilt-ridden stomach, she hopes you die a long slow horrible death so you
can burn forever in hell.

What kind of goddamned person are you that you can't take five fucking
minutes to forward this to all your friends so that they can feel  guilt and
shame for the rest of their day, and then maybe help a poor, bodiless
nine-year-old boy?

Please help me. This really sucks. I try to be happy but it's hard.  I wish
I had a puppy.  I wish I could hold a puppy.

Thank You.
Billy 'Smiles' Evans The boy with just a head And a burlap sack for a body.

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Keep cool, but care.

AsB4,

HMus Scuff



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